Representatives of professions that involve working directly with people are often prone to emotional exhaustion. Elena Smolyanskaya, a clinical psychologist at the Nearmedic on Maroseyka clinic and member of the Association for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy, told socialbites.ca about this.
“We’re talking primarily about teachers, social workers, and doctors. In addition, there are studies that show that primary school teachers are the most vulnerable among social workers – public and government service workers and doctors – oncology departments and ambulance workers, ”said Elena Smolyanskaya.
He added that law enforcement, psychologists, rescuers, pastors should be added to this list, and that “there are lawyers, personnel officers, public relations professionals, accountants, and many more in burnout-related publications.”
The psychologist noted that many face the indifference of service workers who need to interact with people, but this indifference is not a character trait, but a sign of emotional exhaustion.
“Displayed indifference or indifference is a defensive response to monotonous, sometimes pointless, stressful and tiring work. “Such a defensive response occurs in the absence of emotional involvement in professional activities, which indicates emotional burnout.”
According to the psychologist, burnout tendency also depends on the age of the employee.
“Young people are most prone to burnout, for example, due to the mismatch between high expectations and reality, as well as a lack of experience or adult employees who have held the same position for a long time,” he explained.
In addition, personal characteristics such as workaholism, perfectionism, self-confidence problems, low stress resistance, excessive emotional sensitivity, and lack of motivation can also affect burnout.
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